Philip Levine Quotes
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Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.
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A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
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How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.
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I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up.
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Many tech company execs who visit to pitch products take time to peruse the shelves and exclaim upon various devices they owned in younger days.
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I say that religion isn’t about believing things. It’s ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.
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They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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It's up to you now, and we shall help you - that my past does not become your future.
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I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.
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Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they think they're superstar hosts.
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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
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Who's to say because you're just a basketball player, or you are a basketball player, who's to say you can't chime in on other subjects or other important topics?
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The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experience was a huge responsibility. It's a project that requires a wider understanding of the geopolitical nature of the slave trade, of historical and modern-day racism.
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Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.
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Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.
